LCMS U Arizona
Legal name: Arizona Lutheran Campus Mission Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273130895
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2025
- Location
- Tucson, AZ, US
- Phone
- 909-538-1078
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $75,878
- Expenses
- $89,761
- Assets
- $20,116
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rev John Wm Stieve (President)
People named in this filing
- Rev John Wm Stieve (President)
- Ryan Kenny (Secretary)
- Pauline Youngling (Treasure)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
LCMS U Arizona is the campus ministry of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS) serving students, staff and faculty at the University of Arizona and neighboring colleges.
What it reported doing in 2025
We provide donations for the Arizona Campus Mission Society through Faith Lutheran Church for Students at the University of Arizona! ALCMS also provided for meals to support our fundraising activities at various churches. Development of Zoom meetings with Board member and students of UA, and implementing a podcast for university student and parent travel to area church conventions to seek out new students who might be attending the U of A.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 28
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 29.9%; rating input score 30
- Program expense ratio: 25.3%; rating input score 25
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -18.3%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.3% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -12.2% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -47.7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 29.9% of revenue deployed · 25.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $23K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 30/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.